She delays between casts too. Tried it a bit ago and after 3 attempts I don't think it is going to work. I havent had to heal a raid yet and ive only done the 3 crystal tower raids. The squad Healer is a conjurer and thus has one single heal spell they'll use. For Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Let it be known that Squadron Healers do DPS". When I wasn't the healer, I noticed something strange. A SUM and ARCN are listed as DPS. Your friend doesn't get to say how this game should be - the reality is that healers have time to DPS, and should learn to do so. I could be wrong I think its just to aid the WHM in difficult battles with lots of players to heal. Geeze fix the squadron healer please.My repair bill needs it. It's FFXIV, where combat was made to give healers plenty of time to do damage in between hits. But from what ive seen is each team in the raid takes care of itself. Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn PC . I have noticed that the healer seems to not be able to keep me up (as the tank). I not checked Scholar class. If that is the case then as long as you can heal a … When im on team A our healers worry about us and not the other teams. The squad puts out enough dps you can pretty much stand there and just toss the odd heal the few occasions the tank actually needs it. No aoe heals, no regens. I was once told by the greatest person who knows absolutely nothing about healers, that "nobody cares about your healing" Your party is no good dead. As long as my group doesn't ROYALLY mess up, I find very little issue with mana and keeping up DPS. But that dungeon in particular just doesn't work very well with squadrons. If I lose over 2.5% damage/healing from Det to only gain maybe 1% of crit rate, considering I started at 20% crit rate, for me it wouldn't be worth it. It is almost as if I have to get lucky on timing to survive the final boss vale fight which is level 47. As a SCH you probably wouldn't need to do anything as the fairy could do the work. And she doesn't even spam it either. (0) Reply With Quote. So have fun while spears are up watching the healer hard cast cure ii for each individual party member. I'm trying tanking just to see if I like it and I figured squadrons would be the best place to try it....but nooooo Cecily insists on dpsing while I'm at 4% health, then the adds decide they want to come from a mile away to join in and welp....another death. The second is that healers are primarily there to heal, but dealing as much damage as is safely possible between bursts … This is generally detrimental to the party. Johnist. The last boss is even worse, since he casts doom, and im not sure your healers will ever even dispel it. I think WHM still be best healer. Nothing else. Just Cure II. User Info: ... take 2 Squadron archers and spam Engage for the Barrage "glitch". User Info: MMX377. The first is that healers should be only. healing, never worrying about anything other than keeping health up.. Even clerics will do damage in DnD, they're built to heal and fight. Got doom from final boss? ... Eh, AST is going the crit/det build as well it seems. The AI tank essentially doesn't need healing most of the time apart from bosses and even the DPS can tank a bit. See, the thing about healing in FFXIV is that there are three schools of thought on how healing is supposed to work. The absolute worst healer in this game, lol. So far I have run twice as a tank, twice as a healer, and many times as a DPS. I'm talkin' 'bout you Cecily. The healer is 'passable' outside of boss fights, but during boss fights the healer REFUSES to heal herself. I try to keep the gear updated, pop healing potions, but it seems like the healer is doing dps as well. Cure II. 09-01-2013 07:35 AM #9. 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